Posted by SLS on December 7, 2014, at 1:37:00
In reply to if they develop blood work..., posted by Christ_empowered on December 6, 2014, at 22:07:10
> ..then it won't be a psychiatric problem. General practitioners and/or specialists will take over treatment.
Not so fast. There are tests for thyroid function, but many cases are complex, and still need an endocrinologist to treat them effectively. Although identified by a simple blood test, many cases of diabetes defy the skills of the average GP. Why would psychiatric illness be any different?
Are you turned-off by the term "psychiatric" when describing your illness? If so, how do you define it, and what are your objections to using it to categorize psychobiological disorders? Stigma? Unfortunately, stigma often dissuades me from using the term around most people.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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